Título: Human Rights after Hitler
Autor: Dan Plesch
Sinopse: Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include indictments of perpetrators of the Holocaust made while the death camps were still operating, which confounds the conventional wisdom that there was no official Allied response to the Holocaust at the time. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II.From the 1940s until a recent lobbying effort by Plesch and colleagues, the UNWCC’s files were kept out of public view in the UN archives under pressure from the US government. The book answers why the commission and its files were closed and reveals that the lost precedents set by these cases have enormous practical utility for prosecuting war crimes today. They cover US and Allied prosecutions of torture, including “water treatment,” wartime sexual assault, and crimes by foot soldiers who were “just following orders.” Plesch’s book will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of the Second World War as well as provide ground-breaking revelations for historians and human rights practitioners alike.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Human Rights after Hitler”, de Dan Plesch, publicado pela editora Georgetown University Press, em 2017 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Georgetown University Press
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2017
Edição: Illustrated
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781626164338
ISBN13: 9781626164338
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Georgetown University Press costumam oferecer leituras que combinam rigor acadêmico e acessibilidade, com foco em temas como ética, espionagem, linguística, segurança nacional e história política. As obras apresentam narrativas densas, por vezes técnicas, mas que buscam dialogar tanto com especialistas quanto com leitores interessados em análises profundas sobre moralidade, estratégia e eventos históricos. O catálogo revela uma preocupação em explorar conflitos humanos e sociais sob diferentes perspectivas, ora com um tom mais analítico e didático, ora com um ritmo que privilegia a reconstrução detalhada de casos reais e contextos históricos.
